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People Quotes

Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.

The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.

I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

What luck, for governments, that the people are stupid!

The greater the crime perpetrated by the leadership, the less likely it is that the people will ever believe their leaders to be capable of perpetrating such an event.

It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happeningto them.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.

If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.